W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman. ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.”
“We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.”
“We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.”
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“We cannot know everything. We cannot do everything. We are what we chose to have known. We are what we ended up doing. This condition is why you could look around and tell people apart. Time is ticking and we are all fugitives fleeing from random death. And we all flee differently. Thus, with the responsibility of choice, humanity is magical this way.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We cannot know God apart from His Word.”
“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”
“We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”
Source: Seer of Sevenwaters
“We cannot know the mystery of the future.”
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
“We cannot know the truth but we can pretend that we know. And this is lying. Lying fills all our life. People pretend that they know all sorts of things: about God, about the future life, about the universe, about the origin of man, about evolution, about everything; but in reality they do not know anything, even about themselves. And every time they speak about something they do not know as though they knew it, they lie.”
Source: The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution
“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.”
Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”
Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
“We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.”
Source: Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
“We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.”
“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”
Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989
“We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.”
Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
“We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot know what it might make of us. It advances stealthily, day by day and hour by hour and step by poisoned step, never drawing attention to its surreptitious labours, so respectful and considerate that it never once gives us a sudden prod or a nasty fright. Every morning, it turns up with its soothing, invariable face and tells us exactly the opposite of what is actually happening: that everything is fine and nothing has changed, that everything is just as it was yesterday--the balance of power--that nothing has been gained and nothing lost, that our face is the same, as is our hair and our shape, that the person who hated us continues to hate us and the person who loved us continues to love us.”
Source: Los enamoramientos
“We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual. In this country, for example, someone fleeing for his life will think he should call for the police. This is a reasonable way to cope with the threat of pain. But in my country, no one calls for the police, since it is often the police who inflict the pain.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.”
“We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.”
Source: The Science of Mind Collection
“We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.”
“We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.”
“We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.”
“We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.”
“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth, whatever it may turn out to be. This requires a state of openness, curiosity, and sincerity, a state of pure awareness, a state of observing reality without jumping to conclusions about what reality is.
This state of direct experience is known in Zen as “beginner’s mind,” and it is essential to embody this state when we want to understand our experience.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“We cannot learn men from books.”
“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences.”
“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.”
“We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.”
Source: Compromises
“We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.”
Source: Lazarre
“We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.”
“We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.”
“We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.”
“We cannot let our hurts, fears, and prejudices get in the way of God’s calling for our lives.”
Source: The Bible In Poetry,
“We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.”
“We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.”
“We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.”
Source: Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
“We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.”
“We cannot let them win ... They own our bodies but they will never have our souls. Those are ours, always.”
Source: The Lotus Shoes
“We cannot let those who would try to destabilize the world to interfere with American interests and security.”
“We cannot link our understanding and trusting of God’s faithfulness to our results and outcomes. He is faithful regardless of our outcomes.”
Source: It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes
“We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
“We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.”
Source: It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy
“We cannot live for ourselves alone.”
“We cannot live in a way that inconsistent with out expectations for ourselves.”
Source: Talent is Never Enough Workbook: No Matter How Gifted You Are, These 13 Choices Will Make You Better
“We cannot live in a way that is inconsistent with our expectations for ourselves.”
Source: Talent is Never Enough Workbook: No Matter How Gifted You Are, These 13 Choices Will Make You Better
“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
“We cannot live in a world where the Monarch Butterfly does not exist. Period.”
Source: The Adventures of Johnny Butterflyseed